How do root canal treatment in a gorilla

Pertinax, a gorilla of 179 kg Paignton Zoo in southwest England, underwent a dental root canal.

Primate of 179 kg underwent 40 minutes of operation at Paignton, southern England, after receiving general anesthesia

After finding a dentist willing to take on the task, it was necessary to give a general anesthesia the animal.

Then everything went as a session in humans: the infected pulp of the tooth is removed, the root canals were emptied and filled with suitable material.



Infected pulp is removed, the root canals were emptied and filled


Treatment in Pertinax lasted 40 minutes and took veterinary for a check-up in gorilla 33, who was born in Germany and moved to Paignton in 1997.